Marie-Aude Melliès

Born in 2004 in Paris, Marie-Aude Melliès entered the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in 2020, studying violin with Olivier Charlier. After completing her Master’s degree, she continues her studies there in chamber music with Claire Désert and Jean Sulem, as well as in the postgraduate Artist Diploma (DAI) in violin.

Since the age of 11, Marie-Aude Melliès has studied with Zakhar Bron at his academy in Switzerland. She has participated in masterclasses with Shlomo Mintz (Crans-Montana Classics), Maxim Vengerov, Zakhar Bron (Mozarteum, Verbier Festival), Sergey Khachatryan (Colmar Festival / Alain Altinoglu), Leonidas Kavakos (Academy of Athens), Josef Rissin (Carl Flesch Academy), and has also received guidance from Ivry Gitlis and Jean-Jacques Kantorow.

Marie-Aude Melliès began studying at the age of 5 with Hratchia Haroutunian, a former student of Leonid Kogan; from 2016 she studied with Boris Garlitsky at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Germany, and later with Florin Szigeti at the Paris Regional Conservatory.

She has won First Prize at the Leonid Kogan International Competition, as well as at the Flame and Vatelot-Rampal competitions in Paris. Marie-Aude Melliès is also a prizewinner of the Lipinski-Wieniawski Competition in Poland, and in 2025 received the Arndt-Joosten Prize from the Carl Flesch Academy.

As a soloist, she has performed with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (2017), with the Baden-Baden Philharmonie conducted by Heiko Mathias Förster (2025), and with the Zakhar Bron Chamber Orchestra at Interlaken Classics 2026. Marie-Aude Melliès has also performed at the Vladimir Spivakov Festival (Gradsky Hall and Beethoven Hall of the Bolshoi Theatre) in 2016–2017, at the Étoiles du Classique festival in 2025 and 2026, and in Baden-Baden with Máté Szücs and Grigory Alumyan in 2025.

Since 2020, Marie-Aude Melliès has performed in duo with Itamar Golan. They have been invited, among other engagements, to open the La Schubertiade de Sceaux festival in 2022 and to perform at the Musicales d’Arradon in May 2027. Their first CD will be released by Mirare at the end of 2026.

She is supported by the Fondation Safran, Or du Rhin, Société Générale, and Nguyen Thien Dao. Since 2024, Marie-Aude Melliès has played a violin by Charles Coquet, generously loaned by Ute & Patrick Petit.